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Ron Jacobs is a writer, library worker and anti-imperialist. He is the author of The Way the Wind Blew: a History of the Weather Underground and Short Order Frame Up. His collection of essays and other musings titled Tripping Through the American Night is now available and his new novel is The Co-Conspirator's Tale. He is a contributor to Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion, forthcoming from AK Press.
Sunday, November 20, 2011 Transcontinental Occupation
A conversation with veteran activist Peter Bohmer about the Occupy movement
Friday, March 19, 2010 Of Course Narcs Are Crooked.... (1 comments)
A look at Douglas Valentine's most recent book detailing the dirty war within the war on drugs.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010 Just Walk Away From the Democrats
A look at the duplicity of the Democratic Party and a call for progressives and leftists to leave the Democrats behind if they truly want social change
Friday, January 1, 2010 Interventions R Us - War on Terror or War on Disaffected Yemenis? (1 comments)
Like Afghanistan, Yemen is a very poor country. It is also somewhat unstable politically. Its proximity to Saudi Arabia raises some concerns for Washington primarily because of its fear that the ideas informing the insurgencies might inspire Saudi Arabia's disenfranchised masses and upset the oil teat America depends on.
Sunday, September 14, 2008 Washington's False Logic of Torture
A review of the Book The Trial of Donald Rumsfeld by Michael Ratner and the Center for Constitutional Rights
Wednesday, July 2, 2008 What's A Voter to Do? (14 comments)
Barack Obama's backtracking puts thinking progressives in a quandary
Sunday, June 22, 2008 They Call Me the Seeker: Review of Kendall Hale's Radical Passions
A review of Sixties radical/singer Kendall Hale's memoir Radical Passions. Hale does not gloss over disappointments or victories. Her recounting of the years spent working in a Massachusetts shipyard as part of the 1970s new communist movement to organize the US working class includes not only the tribulations of being one of the few women in a yard full of men, but also the shortcomings of the communist cell she was part of.
Friday, May 30, 2008 War Addiction and Democracy (1 comments)
A look at the antiwar movement and its malaise. We can restore democracy in this country. Rebuilding a popular mass-based antiwar movement whose members and leaders spend more time in the streets than in the halls of Congress or Democratic Party meetings is the first step in that direction.
Sunday, May 18, 2008 Go to Work, Go to Jail (4 comments)
A look at immigration policies targeting working immigrants with and without papers
Sunday, January 6, 2008 Ron Paul-Is Being Against the War Enough? (65 comments)
A look at what else Ron Paul stands for besides his opposition to the war. If you're thinking of voting for him, check this out!
Wednesday, August 29, 2007 Forget About the Politicians, Remember the Streets (4 comments)
A look at the failure of the antiwar movement to end the war and a radical suggestion how this could be changed
Saturday, August 11, 2007 Free The San Francisco 8: Former Black Panthers in Prison Need Your Support
Interview with member of the San Francisco 8 Defense Committee. The San Francisco are 8 former Black Panthers charged with a crime that took place over thirty years ago. The only evidence that attaches them to the crime was extracted by torture.
Friday, May 4, 2007 Campus Murders 1970 (2 comments)
A look back at the murders of college students by law enforcement at Kent and Jackson State in 1970
Friday, March 9, 2007 The Union Makes Us Strong! (1 comments)
A brief history of the autoworkers' wildcats in 1972 and a look at the recent labor orgainzing law passed by the House of Representatives
Friday, February 23, 2007 Marching On the Pentagon (2 comments)
A brief history of the 1967 March on the Pentagon and a call to attend the March 17, 2007 march
Wednesday, January 24, 2007 Nothing Is More Important Than This Moment In History
George Bush's State of the Union speech provided every single US resident that opposes the war in Iraq with a reason to take that opposition into the streets. This a call to get out and protest January 27th.
Monday, January 22, 2007 History Through Humor
A review of comedian Mark Steel's history of the French Revolution, Vive la Revolution!
Wednesday, December 27, 2006 Take This War and Shove It! (4 comments)
An examination of current plans to continue the war and a call to do something about it
Sunday, December 17, 2006 The Bebop of Baraka: A Review of Amiri Baraka's Tales of the Out & Gone (2 comments)
Like his then-named compatriots H. Rap Brown and Stokely Carmichael, Baraka threw the racist aspects of integration back in the liberal sociologist's face. Your education is better because it takes place in suburbia? Bullshit! Your god is better than mine now that you got him all blue-eyed and pink? Bullshit!
Wednesday, November 22, 2006 Draft Beer, Not Our Kids (9 comments)
An argument against reinstituting the draft that takes a look at claims made by draft advocates that state a draft is fairer than current recruitment efforts.
Tuesday, October 31, 2006 Hell Is Rising in Oaxaca: An Interview With a Oaxacan Rebel (1 comments)
An interview with a Oaxacan activist emersed in the current political upheaval in that Mexican state, and who was on the scene when the reporter from Indymedia was killed.
Saturday, October 21, 2006 The Man Who Called Out The Devil (2 comments)
Book Review of Nikolas Kozloff's Hugo Chavez: Oil, Politics, and The Challenge to the United States
